Directions: Use the following questions and resources to learn more about your individual. Take careful notes; you may not simply cut and paste from the Internet into your notes. Keep careful track of your sources for your Works Cited. Based on your research, you will create a profile of your individual to share with the class. This profile should provide basic background information on your individual and provide an overview of his/her stance on our main questions: where is the U.S. headed from here? what are the primary issues/concerns facing our nation? how would deal with these issues and concerns?
Questions to consider:
What motivated RFK to get involved in the 1968 presidential campaign?
What was his message to the American people?
How do his goals, proposed policies, message compare to LBJ's Great Society or JFK's New Frontier?
What were his major concerns in 1968 and how did he propose to address these concerns?
Robert Kennedy
Directions: Use the following questions and resources to learn more about your individual. Take careful notes; you may not simply cut and paste from the Internet into your notes. Keep careful track of your sources for your Works Cited. Based on your research, you will create a profile of your individual to share with the class. This profile should provide basic background information on your individual and provide an overview of his/her stance on our main questions: where is the U.S. headed from here? what are the primary issues/concerns facing our nation? how would deal with these issues and concerns?
Questions to consider:
Resources
- Vanity Fair, "The Last Good Campaign,' http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/06/rfk_excerpt200806
- JFK Presidential Library: Speeches by Bobby Kennedy: http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/Speeches+of+Robert+F.+Kennedy.htm
- American Experience: The Kennedys: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kennedys/peopleevents/p_rfk.html
- American Experience: The Kennedys: RFK's Statement on the Assassination of MLK Jr (1968).: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kennedys/filmmore/ps_indy.html
- RFK: Speech Announcing Candidacy: http://www.4president.org/Speeches/rfk1968announcement.htm
- American Experience: The Kennedys: RFK's Speech on Civil Rights (1966): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kennedys/filmmore/ps_capetown.html
- 1968 Campaign Brochure: http://www.4president.org/brochures/rfk1968brochure.htm
- 1968 TV Commercials: http://tv.4president.us/tv1968.htm
- Time Magazine, "Bobby's Groove," (March 29, 1968):
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,838068,00.html